why haven't i known about this?

there's a new store in the old market. i found it on the internet a roundabout way. but nonetheless. the owner recently moved from nyc to open a boutique in the old market. she's a fashionista and may be the answer to my fauxhomesickness of new york.

http://postcardsfromomaha.blogspot.com

the one minute blog: today i...

today i...

-wouldn't have guessed that an apartment tenant would yell 'there is no God' to daphne as she walked to the bathroom
-fit into a shirt from college...that made my outfit what not to wear audition tape worthy
-got suddenly homesick for all things new york
-really appreciate mandy teaching me how to peel an orange
-am looking forward to eating a cadberry egg at some point
-am really craving a strong glass of red wine

that's it for now.
my minute is up.

the outfit in question:

new york

when we land in new york, my heart skips a beat when i see the city's skyline. there's nothing like it. i love it so much that when i get up in the morning i watch the early morning shows just to see it. i wonder where kenley might be in that maze of buildings, people and cars.

i watch movies and television shows (too much sometimes) just to have the sensation that i'm in new york. i've watch almost every episode of sex and the city a million times and the movie hitch just so i can see new york.

i hope there's nothign seriously wrong with me.

does anyone want to meet in new york in may to watch the sex and the city movie?

i know. i'm that girl. but seriously. how much fun would new york be in may!?

hallmark cards

so. i got sucked in quite quickly to the hallmark movie on television tonight. there's something familiar about these movies, they're a bit predictable but they aren't as terrible as some lifetime movies are. they get me every time. not only do i cry during the movies. i cry during the commercials. i will not pay $5 for their cards, but i might just because these commercials...they are priceless. yes, hallmark, you got me.

i'm using marcia's laptop and some neighbor's bootleg internet. i had originally planned on using her computer to skype video with kenley. but he got hurt in his football game and my webcam doesn't work on os x. snap.

last weekend kenley and i made it to nashville and memphis, tennessee and earle, arkansas. there aren't words to describe how amazing it was to be among some of my favorite people. it was incredibly refreshing and inspiring. i always revisit homesickness and how i don't think we ever grow out of it. there's not a day that goes by that i don't feel the deep missing of my people. when they speak to me, when they write me, when they call me, when they look at me, their words, their voices, their eyes...those are my priceless hallmark cards. i take them in my heart. i replay them, i reread them when my days are hard, when my nights are long.

my friends who are scattered across the united states and the world, i could never tell you how much you mean to me. you make me better. you show me Christ. you get me through my long days, my lonely weekends, my happy days, my celebrations, my excitements. have a good week. xo. me.

ps thanks marcia for your computer. and than you linksy for your wireless.

a 3 plunged, 3 flushed toilet experience

what is more embarrassing:

* finding that there is no plunger in your toilet stall in a public restroom
* realizing you need that plunger
* running out of your stall to find the plunger before someone else comes into the bathroom
* plunging the toilet once
* flushing the toilet twice
* flushing it again
* watching the toilet begin to overflow
* plunging it two more times


or walking into the bathroom with the infamous 'neverclosethedoorofthestall woman.'

:)

happy bathrooming.

memories of 07

mom likes to watch the twilight zone...as do my brother and i. with the introduction of tvland and the scifi channel, the twilight zone is the new law and order....ever so often. this weekend there is a 48 hour marathon of the twilight zone. i've been able to catch a couple. kenley and i watched one about a man who was able to stop time with the click of a stop watch. he was able to continue interacting in and out of time while everyone else was frozen in one moment.

as the end of the year approaches i can see moments when i would have loved to have been able to stop time, for just a moment. there are weeks, months, days, hours that i would replay over and and over...and there are some that i would maybe fast forward through. but that's not how life works...fortunately. at the end of the twilight zone episode the guy ends up breaking the stopwatch...and that's never fun, time has stopped and no one can interact with you.

so i'm very thankful that i've been able to journey through life with you all. it would not have been fun without you.

here's to a great year and a great 08.

- nomad lounge with sarah kim
- body attack with the front row divas
- the record number of times seeing kenley in omaha and new york
- welcoming jason to omaha for a moment
- saying goodbye and welcome back to the htz
- spending time with my family
- reading lots of good books
- weight watchers
- meeting new friends
- sushi
- running
- radiator heat
- my neighbor
- watching daphne and caleb fall more in love
- tights
- uncontrollable giggles while doing pushups with kenley
- letters, lots of letters
- feeling the warm embrace of friends around the world
- finally rooming with stephanie at the staff retreat
- booty zoom, need i say more
- webcam - feel the noise
- pomegranates
- cass street roommates
- togetherness tuesdays/thursdays
- finally spending new years with kenley
- being able to navigate myself to nyc on my own
- random phone calls
- omaha friends ahhh
- dtw jrc - sushi and starbucks
- brent and the yellow arrow
- snowmaha
- laughing
- crying
- dreaming

timber

so. in youth group i had to come up with an embarrassing story...from there the youth group would pick out a nick name to go along with the story.

if you know me, you know that i'm, you know, not super graceful. there have been plenty of times when i've been standing completely still and fallen on the ground...or i've walked up the stairs and fallen up them, too.

so tonight. i fell up the stairs.

and my mom said. timber.

oh snap.

more later. i'm at my kentucky home. and i'm happy.